breaking news here on our national the crimean parliament unanimously votes for the region to become part of russia the move will be put to a popular ballot in ten days' time meanwhile the u.s. slaps visa restrictions on russian and crimean officials also. behind my birthday we're going to go over to somebody from the new coalition. a league phone call between top european officials revealed the snipers firing on the crowds and police and gave were allegedly hired by the opposition turned leadership. we've been fighting bullets just like this one. at our g. crew recalls how it was caught up in a sniper fire as the team filmed in a hotel in downtown kenya. and revelations of the former opposition or the ring the

mind on shootings fail to make it to the mainstream how the lines for our state went unnoticed. as major media outlets step up the rhetoric against russia we will gather under reporting of key information on the violence in ukraine. this is our theater national coming to live from moscow we were in a joshie will begin with breaking news story and crimean parliament votes to join russia the final decision will be made in a referendum in ten days time let's not get more in this from is in crimea area so in a story decision i had then for the people of crimea tell us more. it is indeed marina a historic decision crimea that used to be part of the russian empire until today

has very close ties with its big neighbor with more than half of its population being russians and with the russian language being used by the absolute majority of locals could join russia again and today on thursday crimea as parliament voted to troy and russia it is now up to crimean people to decide the republic's future the referendum is expected to be held on march the sixteenth initially this was a shed year old for twenty six of may and then for the end of march and we asked today crimea's prime minister why local authorities are in such a rush. the situation in cuba is out of control radical groups have taken power and the former position is afraid of the country crimea and oppressing us to make a decision as soon as possible and karen to security. mistook

some of has also read to rated today that the situation here on the peninsula is now totally under control of local authorities and security is provided by police first and second by so-called self-defense forces made up of locals for military because sock troops and also some volunteers from russia i hope you can see some of these forces here next to the building of parliament here in the center opel they're circling these buildings and some other governmental and strategic buildings here in the city and in other cities on the peninsula saying that. it needs to be protected because they expect that they could be provocations that could be aggression from forces sent from key if this is what they say a missile extern of said that he is and how. happy with how some western media described the situation here on the police so let's listen to what he has to say

about that. the western media is fueling tension here trying to show russia is using force to manipulate decisions i assure you it's not true. where we are now reporting from sin for up was the capital of crimea which is till today part of ukraine but again the referendum over crimea status is for march the sixteenth and maybe in ten days we can see another country here back to you all right maria thank you so much for bringing us the very latest financial reporting from crimea for us now as we've just heard in ten days locals will have to choose between two options part of ukraine and the other is to become part of russia now on the heels of crimea announcing a referendum the u.s. said it wants to impose visa restrictions russia and crimean officials over what it's calling a threat to kring sovereignty russian foreign minister lavrov responded by saying

it's only aggravating the situation media coverage is feels with you know water in the house hysterical evaluations i'm drawing did once again to john kerry who seems to understand everything that is far from promoting sustainable corporation would do but it's not possible to work in an atmosphere of ultimatums and threats. well the e.u. is also mulling sanctions against russia european leaders are at the moment in an emergency meeting in brussels meanwhile some politicians are warning that western powers should think twice before introducing any punitive measures against russia the german foreign minister believes sanctions will only damage and diplomatic efforts towards a solution in ukraine phelan's prime minister whose country shares a thirteen hundred kilometers long border with russia believes and restrictions well most likely backfire on those who oppose them meanwhile when he is prime minister says the current crisis can only be solved by dialogue well it's now

a talk about its german member of parliament philip misfiled thank you so much of mr misho for joining us here on to international to talk about the situation so oh what sort of sanctions are we talking about in the first place so far as i heard it is a valid reason restrictions for people in the russian elite but personally i have to say i think that dialogue is much more better than sanctions because finally if we would talk about broader economic sanctions it would hit the european you're calling me very strong and very hard and i believe that would bet that would be bad for both sides well certainly because everything in this world is interconnected and now that russia is so integrated into so many institutions around the world and has business interest and the original as they said but also could those sanctions backfire and what sort of fact would they have then. i think the

back of the. sanctions would be of economic sanction would be that it could hurt so weak economy economy in the periphery of the euro zone for example and one one to another point is that we have a strong connection between germany and the russian federation when it comes to see exports of gas and we need in the russian the russian gas on the one hand side on the other inside russia needs our money to stabilize the russian budget and therefore i think the political the political and diplomacy sort of diplomatic diplomatic see to do is aleutian should be much more better than trying to strengthen each other ok and you know thinking along these lines actually london is not willing to curb trade with russia or stop financial operations do you think them given that the u.k.

will try to block sanctions. i don't sing i don't sing so it's these kind of sanctions which are going to work the problem right now there is a kind of hysteric reaction on both sides so far as i follow the russian media and so far i follow the western media we see that today and in the last two hours some kind of a new escalation which is not good because it seemed in the us these it's a situation after the interview with for resident putin and after the words of president obama it's the situation has calmed down a little bit but this is not perfect and what i would prefer is a common agreement among russia and the western world that we can slow down the situation can go and can calm down and again the problem is once if sanctions are stopped that maybe the situation will escalate more and the dialogue would stop and

that would be the worst outcome we can imagine. right that was philip is held or thank you so much for joining us here on r t to talk about the situation around crimea and the possible sanctions by europeans and western officials there now meanwhile ukraine struggling to find a path from the turmoil mourning dozens who were killed in the bloodshed which rocked the streets of kiev several weeks ago these images right here that you're looking at from kiev have sent shock waves across the world over eighty people were killed in the country's worst violence in years and it's now been revealed the snipers who were shooting the crowd and the police were allegedly in the pay of the former opposition that's according to a leak phone call between the u.s. foreign policy chief and a stunning foreign minister here is r.t. if you're all over with the details of the leak we've heard from the stunning foreign minister he confirmed that yes his voice is all not recording though what he has said though is that the message in that phone call is being called street by the media he said that he didn't make any claims that any opposition leaders as

they were at the time. behind the shootings but we can have a little listen again now to exactly what he did saying is not much room for the misconception so that carries i was stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not going to call rich but it was somebody from the new coalition now the the alleged use of snipers by in a coup of his forces and the bed could riot police who were just near behind me on independence square that was one of the the main causes of outrage around the world over eighty people were killed just behind me on independence square among them twenty six police officers if it does turn out that these claims are correct it could have potentially huge repercussions. and there is also more evidence suggesting those leading the protests in key of who behind the shooting these are pictures showing a sniper's rifle being discovered in

a car leaving my dad and the time of the protests the man searching it is parliament member sergei bush inskeep instead of reacting to people's calls to the specs the rifle the man is seen driving away in the car this is now the hat of the interim of president's administration as for the recent staggering leak many believe it should help reveal the true face of those now in power in kiev i sincerely hope those bills awareness amongst the people as commentators said is you it was mentioned that you knew about this they know they've sat on this information for a few days until it was leaked and what actually does this. really does not surprise me one bit one of the most powerful and universal methods the spending i his visual propaganda and this is used in politics to more. people so why. would you convince not show me the politician and so you have here is that

americans that ukraine needs to be saved from a democratically elected president. r.t. correspondents were caught up in the sniper fire in kiev while covering the clashes bullets shattered the windows of a hotel room where our crew was staying and working as they tried to film the escalating street violence when the government collapsed burkhard special forces that have been tasked with ensuring order were disbanded by the new self-appointed authorities and many of the officers took refuge in crimea and that's where your piskun off caught up with one of the earth commanders. at some point we clearly understood that this was no longer like the peaceful protests of two thousand and four and two thousand and seven this time it was all about provocation not only violent but dirty tactics by the rioters while we were on armed we didn't even have non-lethal weapons the plan of those who masterminded this was to make the bird could force crumble to be moralized and pressure us to switch sides but that didn't

happen and then came the worst the shooting rounds are fired at both sides but as i've already told you we didn't have any weapons it was so difficult to understand what was happening but officers just began falling to the ground one by one so what became clear people were dying from bullets but again no shots could have been fired by barrett could force its i'm sure there was some outside force a third party involved in the provocations and the deaths on both sides it was an organized team of professionals it was just an idea as i say he was reporting from the front line of the violence in kiev summed up the details of the tragic events and he remembers the warning from the riot police when he was reporting on the streets of kiev saying someone from the side of the protesters were firing shots we can follow. on facebook and twitter to learn more.

in the. tensions are running are within ukraine and internationally with many media outlets adding fuel to the fire aggression has become a popular term used to describe russia's actions and as granted you can there has been finding out those strong words lack the backing of verified information. aggression is the word that you often hear in the u.s. media and from u.s. officials with regard to russia's presence in ukraine what they fail to show is the . gratian. it's very difficult to talk about aggression when you show thousands of people cheering for russia in different parts of ukraine right maybe that's why you don't see this kind of footage on us t.v. very often but if you do see this coverage in which russia's military presence there in itself is presented as an intervention what the end curs and pundits often

fail to mention is that you have an agreement under which russia is a lot to deploy twenty five thousand troops in ukraine it now has presumably sixteen thousand or so so you get a kick picture where the us presents anything that goes against the interests of those who took power in kiev as an aggression and the revolution there as this peaceful takeover of power. these brave ukrainians took to the streets in order to stand peacefully against tyranny. to demand the barker see. so instead they were met with strangers pick them off one after the other one wonders if the police with molotov cocktails and shooting at them qualifies as standing peacefully according to secretary kerry a huge part of ukraine had no say in the power grab but my don secretary kerry apparently present it as a triumph of democracy. we've heard no comment from him on the leaks conversation

between the e.u. foreign affairs chief catherine ashton and historian foreign minister where they talk about evidence that leaders not you know college give orders to snipers and the media on something like this i mean you would expect breaking news everywhere we're talking about evidence that those who are now celebrating victory in kiev may have well ordered snipers to shoot both peaceful protesters and the police but no none of that for hours it went unnoticed because it doesn't fit into the narrative as it but what the u.s. media was quick to pick up on were unverified reports like this one. robert serry has agreed to give up his mission here in ukraine he's of cool is the u.n. special envoy to ukraine he's from the netherlands a father of three and he was taken against his will a short time ago by militia so after a great deal of hysteria the u.n. confirmed the envoy was not kidnapped but he did come across

a group of protesters and the envoy who was apparently escorted by police at the time decided to leave to avoid further tension the general picture that you get is that of the u.s. mainstream media jumping on anything very fighter on verify to present russia as an aggressor without much or any knowledge of what's happening on the ground and u.s. officials wealth they continue their self-righteous tirade while being gauging actual acts of aggression around the world with innocent people dying every day in drone strikes are from violence in countries that were destabilized by the u.s. in washington i'm going to check on our team. we spoke to former u.s. presidential candidate ron paul who says washington doesn't practice what it preaches. for us to lecture anybody about violating sovereignty what about the sovereignty of iraq and afghanistan and yemen and north africa and we're

constantly being involved pakistan and the use of drone missiles we have eight hundred bases around the world where one hundred thirty countries we're always involved it seems in somebody else's alexion and we preach democracy we finally got democracy theoretically you know in egypt there was an election and of course we didn't like the person they elected but we said let's go back to the military. i don't like hypocrisy and for us to preach one thing at the same time behind the scenes we're doing things to stir up trouble for many many different reasons. and there are many pieces of the ukrainian puzzle that some leave out of sight r.t. dot com has five questions that the western leaders choose not to answer log on and take a look. so this hour in the program here on c.n.n. national fans but not leaving the fight for their home. even animals have rights how can a family with three children and even in

a cage feel. coming up we'll be reporting on how one palestinian family is standing its ground while israel plans ahead with its expansion program. we'll call it on the road side to the car skidded at breakneck speed and fell into a ditch and i was thrown out of the car she was like a broken down it wasn't a single piece left i thought if i lived and had a chance to start my life from scratch i would start making do to help children it . could go on right after he was born the baby was all in casts. his legs are getting bigger and the ortho says it too small so we have to order new ones. has raised money for us she helps us to get the leg braces five years after my potentially fatal injuries in

a car crash i gave birth to my little niece and i think she's my reward for helping all those children who are selling the dollars to buy life for the children. welcome back you're watching aren't international the u.k. government is accused of covering up the arrest and resignation of a close aide of a prime minister who's being investigated in a child pornography case part of the officials job was working on internet filters that would prevent children from accessing inappropriate content arches or smith brings us more his name is true. rock and he is in fact a veteran conservative party advisor david cameron's deputy chief of staff he's

been called cameron spics and he's had what one might call unparalleled access to access to power over a very long time over the last four decades right there in the heart of government the irony lies in the fact that he's also been closely involved in drawing up government policy on internet pornography filters and this is a man who was rested arrested recently on suspicion of what everybody's calling an offense related to child abuse images so not just pornography but what appears to be child pornography now his arrest happened on february fifth but this was all on the quiet downing street appears to have covered it up until it was confronted with it now over the last three weeks no one thing about this but apart from the prime minister who apparently has known for three weeks he said he was very concerned that the matter should be handled correctly that he didn't want to brief

preemptively on a criminal investigation against a member of his starts but his critics who are mainly labor members of parliament opposition say that this raises a number of questions for example what level of security did patrick rock have is there other stuff that we don't know about it's also emerged by the way that rock had previously been accused of sexual harassment which was dealt with by his boss at downing street to a political figure rather than a civil servant take a not very usual so again some sort of oddity going on there the prime minister is being accused of a cover up and his labor critics say that this undermines the entire credibility and effectiveness of the government. online for you right now while their parents call tighter gun control on the streets children may be finding ways to buy guns via social networks facebook and instagram are now promising to crack down on users trying to sell guns to minors via social media more details just

a click away call. also there doctors in the u.s. say they have cured a baby with hiv by starting treatment just hours after its birth for more on this medical breakthrough log onto our website. while israel is pushing for more homes being built on the occupied palestinian territory locals say they're being bullied and forced out of their homes or middle east correspond when to meet a family has been desperately fighting to stay on their land. omar had judges home has been passed down through the generations but now there's pressure on him to move television complaining he's on the wrong side of the wall israel is building to separate the palestinian autonomy from israel how it's all the israeli commander if you put us inside an electronic fence behind a wall and adonal with the gate or whatever you will do we're not leaving our house in our land i first met on maher two years ago then he told me he felt like he was

living in a prison but he refused office to move i don't want money i want my. two years ago detractors were busy plowing the fields around his house but because it was on the israeli side of the wall the plan was to surround his home with a five meter high electric fence and he always wife and three children wanted to leave they would need to go through an underground tunnel monitored by security cameras that would connect them to the other side of the wall and palestine we came here expecting to find something different i thought we'd see it security cameras state of the art technology but instead what we found is much the same two years have passed and nothing. in the malice or in the israelis the occupation country the work slowly the poison are slowly because they do not want to appear for the world as killers and. as you can see when they finish building this tunnel they will close it with a gate the owner of the house will have

a key but no one can come and visit them without permission from the army and it should be within specific hours amar is now sick and i'm able to work he doesn't even have the strength to walk through the tunnel with me in the backyard i can't explain to you how i feel even animals have rights how can a family with three children living in a cage feel almost vows he will fight for his home until the end policy r.t. the larger village palestinian autonomy. and now let's take a look at some other stories in brief police in greece have fired tear gas and used pepper spray to disperse protesters angry at job cuts and severe austerity measures clashes broke out in central athens when a group of demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon during a visit by the german president greece has been dependent on rescue loans from international lenders with germany being the largest contributor and a backer of the yesterday agenda. libyan government says

a son of former leader moammar gadhafi has been extradited from the sheriff lee via wants to try saadi gadhafi for stealing state funds and for armed intimidation he's now in custody in tripoli where he fled after his father was killed during the two thousand and eleven revolution or had previously refused to hand him over do concerns he would face the death penalty. up next to why the bosses of energy giants won't allow fracking in their backyard and breaking the sat with abby martin . u.s. army specialist albert tell you the third is accused of running a scam in which he helped an afghan trucking company steal huge amounts of fueled

by cooking the army books and making it seem as though the fuel had been used when in reality it was diverted the accused kelly have make it into a twenty five thousand gallons of fuel variation to a bureaucratic black hole for garza gillum that is a lot of cash obviously this is wrong but in comparison to the profiteering made off of the war it is a joke that this guy is even going to jail think about the trillions of dollars spent on the post nine eleven wars of luxury tons of big companies have all got huge pieces of the burger pie like retha on with their mis. lockheed martin with their jets and hello burton and blackwater and so on and so on they were all these big companies not the system with big contracts during the war why should the average grunt take part in alluding to what reason does this kelly guy have to not also try to make a buck off the war it seems like in the world there are people who are often punished not because they steal but because they still far too little while not wearing nice suits but that's just my opinion.

the first issue that this government this interim government preoccupied itself with was that the future of the russian language in ukraine and that's at a time when. the country is in cannes so that shows that it shows you the chin three that government was prepared to take the issue is you know what appears to be to many people at least in the west let's say a disproportionate use of force and the day facto occupation of crimea. was in the steam. it puts everything in. letting go of the indian indies for me isn't. part of the

protecting its somebody they would make a brother to but then if they really knew your story. they kill you. there's a need for crazy huh. nice to meet you my name is june what's your name one it was geoffrey. benito's todos martin and this is breaking that you know sometimes there's a story that just define hypocrisy one is how facebook c.e.o.

mark zuckerberg bought out his neighbor in mansions so he could have some privacy nevermind the millions of facebook users his personal data off to vulture businesses another is a story that broke just a few days ago exxon is the largest natural gas producer in the u.s. and if you've been following the downward spiral of u.s. energy consumption you know that the government and big energy are pushing hard for fracking all across the country but don't you dare fracking exxon c.e.o.'s rex tillerson the yard see this million or scumbag things it's perfectly ok to poison the planet with toxic pollution at the hands of his precious business but as soon as his pristine landscape gets scarred well that's just not acceptable teller said in his rich neighbors of a lawsuit in an attempt to shut down a fracking project that's just a little too close to his texas mansion and the petition in the town to block a tower that would provide water for fracking because of how much of an eyesore it would be in the suit they actually go as far as claiming it's illegal it would

create a noise nuisance and traffic hazards interestingly enough mr tillerson sday job is literally to debunk the same claims he's making in the lawsuit and to promote hydraulic fracturing a practice is already been proven to cause earthquakes and birth defects in the very least in fact tellers and is even gotten as far as saying that those who oppose and try to regulate fracking are quote holding back the american economic recovery growth and global competitiveness wow i find it absolutely fascinating that c.e.o.'s and politicians find it perfectly acceptable to completely strip the environment toxify the land and poison the air as long as it's someone else's land to someone else's family. someone else's life i'm just waiting for tellers and the set his own p.r. machine against himself after all he would want to be accused of holding back the growth of america what do you now let's break this. to the police. it was

a really very hard to think that. she. never had sex with her there the. surveillance in the post nine eleven world is par for the course but when news broke in two thousand and twelve the new york police department going outside of its jurisdiction to spy on large swathes of new jersey's muslim community people were a little surprised the n.y.p.d.

is violation of civil liberties by indiscriminately spine and other states religious populations seemed obvious and in two thousand and twelve eight muslims filed a lawsuit against the city for targeting a community for its religion but last week a federal judge threw out the case altogether alleging that the surveillance was not a violation of civil liberties because it can be ducted to prevent terrorism even though no acts of terrorism are actually prevented from the spine and while there's a similar case pending in brooklyn this ruling could have set a dangerous precedent for the future well earlier i was joined by deepa kumar professor at rutgers university and author of the book as lama phobia and the politics of empire i first asked her to break down why the judge justified the constitution. now to get a program. to look at the background of this case this case was brought by the center for constitutional rights and it's on behalf of new jersey muslims who have been being surveillance for at least the last twelve years since two thousand and two so mosques and schools and community sentence and student groups and even grade

school does find we must and they are and the idea behind this lawsuit was to say that this is unconstitutional and this program should be suspended. but what the judge ruled was that actually no harm was done by surveillance you know never mind the psychological trauma that new jersey muslims are faced how do you treat as you know in all of their institutions and so what you know it's gone beyond that how that was done was by the associated press which broke the story the associated press did some amazing investigative journalism for which they won the pulitzer prize the judge decided that they were the ones who caused not the actual surveillance and you know you have it in one fell swoop you have not only the justification for racial and religious profiling but it impacts on the press right in fact on the associated press and the idea that the press should be watchdogs of the government that is shocking that they would actually go as far as claiming that

the harm wasn't the surveillance system itself it was the just the press of the fact that surveillance was happening i mean what do you think about that claim well i think this is a completely specious claim i think that it's this ruling absolutely sends the wrong message it sends a green light not only to the n.y.p.d. to continue these practices of savannah and but to police agencies all over the country this week and with absolute impunity my disability assumes that i want to read from the. document that new judge produced this is what he said he said quote the police could not or might not you just see for muslim terrorist activity. without monitoring the muslim community itself the motive for the program was not solely to discriminate against muslims but rather to find muslim terrorists hiding among ordinary to all fighting muslims which is just so deeply racist you know it's a cultural racism that says that people who practice islam are sort of programmed.

to inspect energies and this is due to the mindset of the n.y.p.d. they released a document in two thousand and seven cold terrorism in the west the homegrown threat in which they argue that there is a four step process of radicalization in which if you are just a young muslim man you are already at stage one then you become religious you stop smoking drinking and you start down to religion and you know what's cracking once you pop ice age right and this is really such a simplistic and problematic notion of white people to lunch and i'm so frank you this is cultural racism barty's a former republican congressman a bush appointees even been removed from a racketeering and murder case in the past for his lack of impartiality so considering his past how much do you think martinez personal politics played into the really well i'm sure of how to do that because there are a piece of schools of thought to be well the republicans school of thought that was

a conservative school of thought tends to be very simplistic in the way it mirrors the muslim terrorists and me threat and i have no doubt that that's what you get huge role in how is the n.y.p.d. justified and spying on locations completely outside of its jurisdiction yes well frankly this entire program is not legal because a cia agent was responsible for setting this program up so first of all the cia should not be involved in any kind of domestic spying is sought so there is so many ways in which you know what the n.y.p.d. should be doing the cia should be doing has been. i raise in this case and you have accused was actually brought by a man by the name of assad is he means natural and and you know i believe went off to fight in the iraq war but then he comes back and finds that it is a lost cause being so right on so you know the logic is will send you to fight for

oil and so forth when you come back you're part of a suspect community. of a bowl or you mentioned kind of the message the clear message that this ruling sends i mean expand on that what kind of precedent do you think it will set for future widespread surveillance by law enforcement agencies across the country well you know you have there's already been since two thousand and two widespread programs of the sort the n.y.p.d. is not the one institution the f.b.i. various you know no good police departments and been involved in arrest but the key to keep in mind is that your jealousy for instance even though this program has been in the facts instead of thousand and two there has not been one seemed relieved related to terrorist activity level of the terrorism conviction and actually this is consistent with nationwide statistics in the ten years since nine eleven off the one hundred fifty thousand murders in the united states most americans and the response would be thirty three zero right answer the question is

why so many resources spent police department by the f.b.i. by the national security agency and so on so mailing list americans well what it comes down to i think really is that we have seen the massive development and growth for not only a civilian city but a national security state that relies on the scene object that carries the nine eleven or the or no there are these horrible muslim terrorists everywhere so we have to expand its national security state now timothy i mean let's be clear this national security state isn't about keeping us see it right. you think about what americans die from being died more often from things like these related injuries forty five thousand americans die each year from that with access to power yeah right but there's no war on the for profit yes that's what it is i what i'm arguing next book that i'm writing is really about

a national security state that guards the interests of the one percent. and justifying that national security state is about creating this enemy and creating these programs that go off to by the way not just most americans but all the center do you think that the election of new york city mayor bill de blasio has made a tangible difference and both the approach of minority surveillance and stop and frisk tactics i know a lot of people are kind of disappointed as so far yeah i mean the rhetorical the i think it's made some good friends because de blasio around the platform where he not only rejected stop and frisk but he also promised them to new york city that he would curtail and you know just didn't like it surveillance program and only in specific cases where there was actually been television and sanctioned this time surveillance but to the best of my knowledge that he hasn't actually done anything the power to that and the one thing that he has done is actually wait. new police

commission out whom you know if you don't move this madness william bratton he was the chief or be any in the head while they actually the number of stop and frisk case that has expanded by fifty percent and furthermore he was fond of putting forward you know he had any version of them you know program it was called a community mapping program which is going to do exactly the same thing with most americans it didn't come to fruition because there was a huge public outcry deeper kumar professor rutgers university author islamophobia and the politics and power always a pleasure having on thank you. sigur and you guys will break down the real problem in this country. we'll call it on the road side to the car skidded at breakneck speed and fell into a ditch and i was thrown out of the car it was like a broken dolls it wasn't

a single shoulder piece left does it i thought if i lift and had a chance to start my life from scratch what i would start making goals to help children it. could go on right after he was born the baby was all in casts. his legs are getting bigger and the ortho says get too small so we have to order new once said lauren has raised money for us she helps us to get a leg braces five years after my potentially fatal injuries in a car crash i gave birth to my little miss a i think she's my reward for helping all those children who is selling the dollars to buy life for the children. i was an esteemed person. it puts everything into. letting go of those identities for me isn't. part of this is protecting it's somebody they would make

a brother to the dentist they really need your story. they'd kill. me before crazy huh. to me in my name is jim what's her name my name is jeffery. one of the most controversial and politicize issues in america is welfare yes i'm talking about all those status who can't get their grubby hands out of uncle sam's

pockets on the heels of obama signing a farm bill that will cut funding to food stamps by eight billion dollars a new report by good jobs first has exposed the absurd amount of taxpayer dollars are going to provide welfare not for the poor but for wealthy corporations of course corporate welfare is not really mentioned on the corporate process as a problem but i wonder why it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that it's owned by five corporations well the report is aptly titled subsidizing the corporate one percent revealing that state and local governments have shelled out at least one hundred ten billion dollars to companies doing business in the us of a the study compiles figures over several years analyzing the many ways these companies are enjoying special treatment which will come in the form of everything from utility discounts to cash giveaways in theory the government justifies corporate subsidies to incentivize business growth and to support startup industries and if applied in that way i'm not entirely against it but the stats and lack of transparency paint

a much different picture to the majority of these subsidies are going to only a select few of the richest of the rich companies in the country so which mega corporations are benefiting the most first off there is dow chemical at fifty seven billion dollars company that's been exploiting us energy policy for years surpassed any other corporation on the list by the sheer number of subsidies it's received four hundred and sixteen in total adding up to one point four billion dollars next up digital science company intel which manufactures aerospace components made number three on the list which fifty eight subsidies totaling three point eight billion dollars or take. aluminum company which has taken in ninety one subsidies totaling five point six billion dollars in fact the amount that outflow receives in government handouts far exceeds their annual profits as journalist david johnston points out on the basis of its pretax income for the last four years these subsidies amount of all the pretax profits can expect for the next one hundred and

eighty nine years wow so this company is essentially running on government cash nice also interesting that makes no public mention of these massive subsidies that its annual shareholders meeting finally topping the list at number one cash cow recipient is boeing with one hundred thirty seven subsidies totaling a staggering thirteen billion dollars now boeing is notorious for holding jobs hostage while states fight each other for its contracts there's thirteen billion dollars in handouts reflects the amazing deals lucky boeing has clearly made with states like washington and south carolina keep in mind that boeing is the number two provider for america's military machine which i don't think is an industry that deserves financial breaks. the subsidies in this report are often in the form of tax abatement wondered which underscores exactly how much burden falls on average taxpayers because many of these massive corporations are relying on government

welfare for profit employees that actually earn the money from their sales an organization called citizens for tax justice points out that at the end of the day this tax burden hits the poor especially hard adding that quote in every state low income taxpayers pay more as a share of income in the wealthiest one percent remember this report doesn't even take into account federal subsidies which highlights the need for more transparency on the issue of corporate welfare so you tell me which makes more sense continuing to bicker about food stamps or addressing the same corporate welfare that actually prepared. it's poverty all in the name of job creation. america is one of the only so-called represented democracies in the world that is

utterly dominated by two parties the democrats and the republicans the left versus the right it's all manufactured paradigm when in reality both parties are more in line of the each other and the majority of americans are in line with them what's even more frustrating is how hard it is to break through the political system as an independent or third party candidate without being completely marginalized by the media when one woman is taking that chance her name is mary and williamson and she's running as an independent for california's thirty third district but she's also been a new york times best selling author on the subject of spirituality and self-improvement four different times she joins me now to talk about her transition from self-help guru to politician thanks so much for coming on. thank you very much for having me marian you're primarily known as a spiritual teacher and author not exactly something someone associates with politics so why do you decide to jump into the political ring. well isn't that the problem though that anybody is not associated with politics isn't part of the

problem that we have a kind of political class and politics has become a kind of spectator sport everybody should feel that they're part of that show even eisenhower said politics should be the part time profession of every american citizen a very good point i totally agree with you it's time to take it out of the inside baseball. that would have been imposed had you wrote recently entitled a funny thing happened on the way to the primary i want to read a quote from it we don't have an open political system we have a political elite ruled by political parties that decides who gets to play whoever is playing however nice a person is part of the same conversation we've been having for years the stale worn out rhetoric that promises to. do little more than perpetuate the system as it is i cannot agree more with how have you experienced this phenomenon firsthand is someone running outside about to party structure. well you know i think more than anything else we just have to disinter all ourselves as lincoln would say it's just a thought we have you know we have a two party too awfully as you're well aware and it has

a choke hold on the system and it's sucking the oxygen out of our public discourse but there's no need for it i think americans just need to be taught some of our own history there's no mention of political parties in our founding documents george washington warned us against them in his farewell address abolition did not come from a major party suffrage did not come from the major party the civil rights movement did not come from the major party the parties although they certainly have their role to play but they're they should be here to serve us we shouldn't be having to filter all of our thoughts through their idiology and you know j.f.k. said we should be seeking not the democratic answer or the republican answer but the right answer and at a time today as you mentioned yourself when the more disturbing news is how similar they are compared to how dissimilar they are i think it's time for some voices that just don't buy into the idea that we have to be one or the other and you describe yourself as a lifelong democrat you're running as an independent why did you choose to distance

yourself from the party and what do you see as the most fundamental flaw of the left wing establishment. but i don't think of myself as really distancing from the party i think the party has distanced itself from me i think if you look at someone like bernie sanders here he acts in many cases more like a democrat as i think of a democrat acting than many democrats do and so what's happened today is the progressives have this codependent relationship with the democratic party they keep getting more corporatist and in many cases more militarist and progressive say oh ok and enable them one more time one thing they have to give to the tea party they're not in a coat of paint. relationship with the republican party and i think it's really important for progressives who are treated like the democratic party in too many cases not all cases but in too many like you know we we come to when there's an election we ignore you till the next one i just think many of us can't tell the line anymore i just know that i can't but i would caucus with democrats you know

like i said i am a bobby kennedy democrat and it's hard it's like well stone said i'm from the democratic wing of the democratic party it's hard for me as a democrat to find too much comfort anymore within the purview of the democratic party i'm you know i'm open i hope that this election you know one of the reasons i hope i win app is because i think it would really perhaps inspire a movement by which the democrats get their soul back not the people but the party sure i heard some people say that if nixon were running today you'd be the most liberal democrat i hope there it's pretty shocking how far right everything is kind of shifted let's talk about your fund raising efforts according to open secrets you've already raised over three hundred thousand dollars far surpassing your other opponents how we've been able to do this. it's grassroots you know part of the way americans are locked out today and that's why i'm running this campaign the average american is locked out of what should be considered the minimum in terms of access

to political influence educational opportunity and economic opportunity and the way that works of course with this legalized system of bribery and corruption we have especially since citizens united by which money forces wield such disproportionate influence over our political system compared to the average citizen is how expensive it is to run for office if you don't either have wealth or have access to wealth so i looked at my four hundred thousand names on facebook and my two hundred thousand on twitter because i i have been writing books you know my first book came out in one thousand nine hundred two so i've been out there for a while and i thought to myself looking at my social me. numbers i thought well if everybody sends me five dollars i could do this and my it's a grassroots campaign and i've announced publicly i'm not taking pac money i'm not taking lobbyist money and my average donation is fifty nine dollars. that's how it should be and. we're almost out of time i just want to get to

a couple more things about is incredible but you're saying that you're still not being treated as a legitimate candidate even though you've made a lot of money through grassroots runners and i mean what other factors are leading to your dismissal. well you know what the fact is there is this sort of media political elite but it's ok that's what i would if i were the democrats today my studies to do would be to ignore me and pretend that i don't exist so you know i can't blame them for that. i just and the media you know i think when henry waxman first announced his retirement it's all horse races and it's all in the horse race is that the democrat of that democrat but you know part of running with any real principle is that the horse race is that what you're doing this for and you know the only the only the only thing that matters is what the voters have to say on june third on our primary june third so i think a lot of people are coming to understand that i would not be a threat to the democratic party i don't think anybody sees bernie sanders as

a threat to the democratic party and also people are coming to understand that he doesn't lack power in the senate i think that people here in los angeles are beginning to understand that the election of an independent candidate particularly someone running on the platform of getting the money out of politics would really help create a space an opening a possibility for this kind of a candidacy and a winning candidacy throughout the country and l.a. likes to do things first you know this is a district that doesn't really like same ole same ole anything and people are really responding to the idea that we start new conversations here this is what we do this is why people live in california. fornia this area starts a new conversation it's a national trend within five years and i think that's one of the selling points of this campaign i think it's an exciting idea that let's just not going to be perpetuating the system as it is when all of us know it's no more. california a lot of things in motion here let's talk about from the other major points of your

political platform you're on board with several bills that representative barbara lee has proposed including the meritorious of the use of drones the repeal of the authorization for use of military force i mean as much as i believe in these things these issues seem to be dead in the water on capitol hill how would you get congress to seriously consider them. well listen i'm not naive about what one congresswoman can do particularly first time congress person who particularly now that it's an open seat anybody will be so i'm not naive i wouldn't be going to washington with a magic wand no one would and no one should be able to but on the other hand i think conviction is a force multiplier and particularly as an independent candidate not feeling shackled i think that my hopefully the contribution of my voice both within congress and because i have a national platform of some kind outside of congress as well to use whatever power that i have in terms of audience nationally to talk about these things in

a way that makes more people wake up and more people ask their congress people and their candidates around the country what of what's going on with these drones i don't think the average person even realize there's abbi the power of these things they will they can know who you slept with what you just logged onto on your computer what room you just walked into and they are coming and you know the same the same government that has had to been forced to acknowledge n.s.a. spying tells us in relation to drones not to worry because they are going to have to adhere to all privacy laws state federal and local americans who listen to this our god following we just need to continue the buzz it's like you create with. show a lot of voices are out there now i think something's already rumbling and i just believe that these voices need to also be represented in a lesson ok i need to see if something is definitely in a revolution of consciousness thanks for being a part of marianne williamson congressional candidate california district thirty three really appreciate you coming on. thank you that's our show you guys join me

again tomorrow and i brought the. technology innovation. developments around russia we. covered the first issue that this government this interim government preoccupied itself which was the future of the russian language in ukraine and that's at a time when. the country is in cannes so that shows you that government was prepared to take the issue is you know what appears to. many people at least in the west let's say a disproportionate use of force and the de facto occupation of crimea.

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breaking news the crimean parliament unanimously for the region to become part of russia the move will be put to a popular ballot in ten days' time meanwhile visa restrictions on russian and crimean officials also. say they were. all rich but somebody. leaks a phone call between top european officials reveals the snipers are firing at the crowds and police in. me hired by the opposition turn to leadership. bullets just like this one and our crew recalls how it was caught up in the sniper fire as a team was filmed in a hotel in downtown. and revelations of the film

opposition ordering the mind in the shootings are failed to make it to the mainstream headlines. for hours it went unnoticed. as the major media outlets stepped up the rhetoric against russia we look at the under reporting information on the violence in ukraine. it's eight pm here in the russian capital moscow you love with us on our t.v. international you with me what's a breaking news story now. the crimean parliament votes to join russia the final decision will be made in a referendum in ten days time parties maria fanaa is in crimea. crimea that used to be part of the russian empire has very close ties with its big neighbor with more

than half of its population being russians and with the russian language being used by the absolute majority of locals could join russia again and today on thursday crimea as parliament voted to troy engressia it is now up to crimean people to decide the republic's future the referendum is expected to be held on march the sixteenth initially this was a shed year old for twenty six of may and then for the end of march and we asked today crimea as prime minister why local authorities are in such a rush the situation in cuba is out of control radical groups have taken power and the form of opposition is afraid of the transfer of crimea and oppressing us to make a decision as soon as possible and karen to security mr external has also read to rated today that the situation here on the peninsula is now totally under control of local authorities and security provided by police first and second by so-called

self-defense forces made up of locals former military because our troops and also some volunteers from russia and this section of said that he is unhappy with how some western media describes the situation here the western media is fueling tension here trying to show russia is using force to manipulate decisions i assure you it's not true where we are now reporting from sin for up the capital of crimea which is till today part of ukraine but again the referendum over crimea status showed you for march the sixteenth and maybe in ten days we can see another country here. so in ten days the locals will have to choose between two options one is just a part of ukraine the other is to become part of russia now on the heels of crimea announcing a referendum the u.s. said it wants to impose visa restrictions on russia and crimean officials over what

it's calling a threat to ukraine's a sobering team russian foreign minister lavrov responded by say it's only aggravating the situation media coverage is filled with you know water and how this is not their go round ations i'm the wind it once again to jump seems to understand that everything in madrid is far from being sustainable no operational not possible to work with your. friends by form of a spectacle on the issue let's cross live now to political and of this alexander out on the cross off who joins us now on our international it's good to have you with us should crimean people vote on joining russia and how can we how can the situation unfold is taken that there's no self proclaimed government in kiev at the moment neither the us are there to accept the results. well we can obviously assume that once the people of crimea vote in that a friend them whatever they vote for with that we can predict technically speaking

the would not be accepted by the people in the interim government as they call themselves or the west so this is not going to be the end of the story there's going to be a lot of political maneuvering and statements made by all four of all over the place so this will not be the end of this saga at all what do you think the result of the very two will be. well that's for the crimean people to decide the course but it does look like they would probably decide to go with russia now to be honest with you i don't really know whether in this complicated situation that would be a good thing to be honest with you because can you imagine what will happen next well can you imagine what will start happening in the west can you imagine the houston area the pressure of all sorts of sanctions being. because they would

say well now you're splitting we're going to go against you so i think that this was the position this composition actually of russia is very important russia has to be cool and russia has to say to those western nations deescalate yourself guys as well because you know they always say to russia you deescalate the situation on cover me about i think they should release make a step back and really really you know come down the situation because what we're witnessing at the moment even the news coverage itself is basically so inflammatory it is provoking violence even where there is no violence so i think it's a tough time for the people of crimea let's talk about all this rhetoric we've been hearing now the e.u. is threatening with possible visa restrictions for russian citizens and now it's spain's parliamentarians voicing prime and freezing of their visas with the economy

in such a dire situation and the right time for this kind of action. absolutely not because of course as we know the whole point of the e.u. spreading its influence it's not only political or military it's also because the e.u. is desperate some of those countries i salute your bankrupt the so-called recovery which is being talked about in the e.u. is being put by newly printed money just the same as in america which is printing something like sixty five billion now but has been printing more new money before and this so-called recovery is basically just based on not printed money they can't afford to introduce serious sanctions so they go for the so-called smart sanctions you know tough talking guys like obama and the others thinking that this will paralyze russia or whatever of course it won't but i suspect that the inside the west and western kill many many countries think no we can go for this i mean

germany is probably terrified at the thought of losing all those billions of called hearts and deals and other things britain britain has already signaled it's not they're going to go for any serious trade restrictions because simply because the foreign money is the last thing they need to lose now this is for them was going to be a disaster they are bankrupt so there's no this is oh poor cheering mr alexander of after you leave it right there with your political ax but i thank you very much for your expertise on this subject that we're situation we continue to follow here in new crane right now the easy is also mining sanctions against russia european leaders at the moment in an emergency meeting in brussels meanwhile some politicians are warning that western powers should think twice before introducing any punitive measures against russia the german foreign minister believes sanctions will only damage any diplomatic efforts towards

a solution in ukraine phailin sub prime. a minister whose country shares a thirteen hundred kilometers long border with russia believes any restrictions will most likely backfire on those who impose it meanwhile the thruway me is our prime minister says a punitive measures will do no do you know good to either side how we talk to german member of parliament felipe or miss fell to things that the sanctions lose lose scenario. if we would talk about broader economic sanctions it would hit the european economy very strong and very hard and i believe that would bet that would be bad for both sides it could hurt so weak economic ana me in the periphery of so euro zone for example and one one one to another point is that we have a strong connection between germany and the russian federation when it comes to see exports of gas and we need in the russian the russian gas on the one side on the

other hand side russia needs our money to stabilize the russian budget the problem is once if sanctions are started maybe the situation will escalate more and the dialogue will stop and that would be the worst outcome we can imagine. meanwhile ukraine's is struggling to find a path from the turmoil mourning the dozens who were killed in the blast shed which rocked the streets of kiev several weeks ago let's take a look at these images are from a kiev that have been sending shock waves across the world over eighty people were killed in the country the country's was violent in yes' really and it's now been revealed that the snipers who were shooting at the crowd as well as the police were allegedly in the pay of the opposition that's according to a lead phone call between the e.u. foreign policy chief and the estonian foreign minister his artie's put all of the details of that like we've heard from the stern and foreign minister he confirmed

that yes his voice is all not recording now what he has said though is that the message in that phone call is being misconstrued by the media he said that he didn't make any claims the opposition leaders as they were at the time were behind the shootings but we can have a little listen again now to exactly what he did say miss not much room for the misconception so that series i was stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not going to call which. the somebody from the new coalition no the the alleged use of snipers by in a coup of his forces and the bad good riot police who were just me behind me on independence square that was one of the main causes of outrage around the world over eighty people were killed just behind me on independence square among them twenty six police officers if it does turn out that these claims are correct it could have potentially repercussions. and there's also more evidence suggesting

those leading the protests in kiev could be behind the shooting these pictures showing a sniper's rifle being discovered it in a car leaving my done at the time of the protests a man cession it is a parliament member said agape machines keep instead of reacting to people's calls to inspect the rifle the man is seen driving away in his car mr pushing ski is now the head of the interim president's administration as with a recent staggering leak many believe it should help reveal the true face of those now in power in kiev. i sincerely hope. that people as commentators said as you mentioned you knew about this sound this information for a few days until it was leaked and what actually but it really does not surprise me one bit one of the most powerful and universal measures the spending i give visual

propaganda and this is used in politics. people so what. would you convince not show me the population of your heroes but americans that ukraine needs to be saved from a democratically elected president. archie correspondents away caught up in a the sniper fire in kiev while covering the clash. bullets shattered the windows of a hotel room where our crew was staying and working as they tried to film the escalating street violence when the government collapsed. special forces that had been tossed within showing order were disbanded by the new self-appointed authorities many of the officers to refuse in crimea and that's why you got a peace cannot quote up with one of their command. at some point we clearly understood that this was no longer like the peaceful protests of two thousand and

four and two thousand and seven this time it was all about provocation not only violent but dirty tactics by the rioters while we were on our own we didn't even have non-lethal weapons the plan of those who masterminded this was to make the bird could force crumble to demoralize us and pressure us to switch sides but that didn't happen and then came the worst the shooting rounds are fired at both sides but as i've already told you we didn't have any weapons it was so difficult to understand what was happening but officers just began falling to the ground one by one to what became clear people were dying from bullets but again no shots could have been fired by barrett could foresee i'm sure there was some outside force a third party involved in the provocations and the deaths on both sides it was an organized team of professionals. who was reporting from the frontline of the violence in here of us summed up the details of the tragic events

he remembers the warnings from the white police when he was reporting on the streets of kiev saying someone from the side of the protestors were firing shots you can follow me on facebook and twitter to learn more. than them. well the crisis in ukraine and the way its coverage is affecting the situation right after the break to stay with us for that. was in the steam. it puts everything in. letting go of the identities for me isn't. part of protecting us somebody they would make

a brother to the dent if they really knew your story. they just. there's me before crazy how. it's nice to meet you my name is jim what's your name my name is jeffrey.

thanks for staying with us for more news on r t international tensions are running high with the within ukraine and internationally with many media outlets adding fuel to the fire a question has become a popular term used to describe russia's action and as r.t. is then should you can has been finding algebra strong words like the backing of verified information. aggression is the word that you often hear in the u.s. media and from u.s. officials with regard to russia's presence in ukraine what they fail to show is the aggression. it's very difficult to talk about aggression when you show thousands of people cheering for russia in different parts of ukraine right maybe that's why you don't see this kind of footage on us t.v. very often but if you do see this coverage in which russia's military presence there in itself is presented as an intervention what the end curs and pundits often

fail to mention is that russian ukraine have an agreement under which russia has a lot to deploy twenty five thousand troops in ukraine it now has presumably sixteen thousand or so so you get a kick picture where the u.s. presents anything that goes against the interests of those who took power in kiev as an aggression and the revolution there as this peaceful takeover of power. these brave ukrainians took to the streets in order to peacefully against tyranny. to the barkers. so instead they were met with strikers who picked them off one after the other one wonders if the police with molotov cocktails and shooting at them qualifies as standing peacefully according to secretary kerry a huge part of ukraine had no say in the power grab but my don secretary kerry apparently present it as a triumph of democracy. we've heard no comments from him on the leaks conversation

between the e.u. foreign affairs chief catherine ashton and a stony and foreign minister where they talk about evidence that leaders not unocal which gave orders to snipers and the media on something like this i mean you would expect breaking news everywhere we're talking about evidence that those who are now celebrating victory in kiev may have ordered snipers to shoot both peaceful protesters and the police but no none of that for hours it went unnoticed because it doesn't fit into the narrative does it but what the u.s. media was quick to pick up on were unverified reports like this one. robert serry has agreed to give up his mission here in ukraine he is of cause the u.n. special envoy to ukraine he's from the netherlands a father of three and he was taken against his will a short time ago by militia so after a great deal of hysteria the u.n. confirmed that the envoy was not kidnapped but he did come across

a group of protesters and the envoy who was apparently escorted by police at the time decided to leave to avoid further tension the general picture that you get is that of the u.s. mainstream media jumping on anything very fighter on verify to present russia as an aggressor without much or any knowledge of what's happening on the ground and u.s. officials wealth they continue their self-righteous tirade while being gauging actual acts of aggression around the world with. innocent people dying every day in drone strikes are from violence in countries that were destabilized by the u.s. in washington i'm going to check on our team. we spoke to former u.s. presidential candidate ron paul who says washington doesn't practice what it preaches. for us to lecture anybody about violating sovereignty what about the sovereignty of iraq and afghanistan and yemen and north africa.

constantly being involved pakistan and the use of drone missiles we have eight hundred bases around the world where one hundred thirty countries were always involved it seems in somebody else's election and we preach democracy we finally got democracy where you know. there was an election and of course we didn't like the person that elected so we said this go back to the military so i don't i don't like hypocrisy and for us to preach one thing at the same time behind the scenes we're doing things to stir up trouble for many many different reasons. there are many pieces of the ukrainian puzzle that some leave out all sides dot com that's five questions at the west and need us choose not. to take a look. also online for you right now they have parents of whole time to gun control in the streets of children maybe finding ways to buy a gun. or facebook and instagram i'm not promising to crack down on uses trying to

sell guns to minus via social media more details just a click away on archie dot com. also while you're clicking away they doctors in the u.s. will say they have cured a baby with a chinese but still treatment just hours after its birth a full on it's this medical breakthrough album to a website. while israel is pushing for more build on the occupied palestinian territory local saving the it being bullied to and forced out of their homes a middle east correspondent to meet a family who's been desperately fighting to stay on their land. omar had judges home has been passed down through the generations but now this pressure on him to move tell of this complaining he's on the wrong side of the wall israel is building to separate the palestinian autonomy from israel how it's all the israeli commander if you brought us an electronic fence behind the wall and they're done away with

the gate so whatever you will do we're not leaving our house and our land i first met on market two years ago then he told me he felt like he was living in a prison but he refused office to move i don't want money i want my one. two years ago detractors are busy planning fields around his house but because it was on the israeli side of the border the plan was to surround his home with a five meter high electric fence and he always wife and three children wanted to leave they would need to go through an underground tunnel monitored by security cameras that would connect them to the other side of the wall and palestine we can you know expecting to find something different i thought we'd see it security cameras state of the art technology but instead what we found is much the same two years have passed and nothing. in the malice or a new the israelis the occupation country we work slowly and the boys in are slowly

because they do not want to interview the world as killers as well. as you can see when they finish building this tunnel they will close it with a gate the owner of the house will have a key but no one can come and visit them without permission from the army and it should be within specific hours of omar is now sick and i'm able to work he doesn't even have the strength to go through the tunnel with me in the backyard i can't explain to you how i feel even animals have rights but how can a family with three children and women in a cage feel almost vows he will fight for his home until the end policy r.t. one larger village palestinian autonomy. the news in brief now police in greece are fired tear gas and use pepper spray to disperse protesters angry a job cuts and severe austerity measures clashes broke out in central athens when a group of demonstrators tried to break through a police cord on during

a visit by the german president to greece has been dependent on rescue loans from international lenders with germany being at the largest contributor and a backer of the sterett it gender. the libyan government does that as a son of a former leader moammar gadhafi has been extradited from. libya once a try is saadi gadhafi for standing state funds and for intimidation he's now in custody in tripoli where he fled after his father was killed during the twenty seven revolution is that had previously said to hand him over to concerns he would face the death penalty. how can you clean avert a default that's on boom bust next with an eight.

u.s. army specialist albert tell you the third is accused of running a scam in which he helped an afghan trucking company steal huge amounts of fueled by cooking the army books and making it seem as though the fuel had been used when in reality it was diverted the accused kelly have make it into a twenty five thousand gallons of fuel very into a bureaucratic black hole and four dollars a gallon that is a lot of cash obviously this is wrong but in comparison to the profiteering made off of the war it is a joke that this guy is even going to jail think about the trillions of dollars spent on the post nine eleven wars of luxury tons of big companies have all got huge pieces of the berger pie like raytheon with their missiles lockheed martin with their jets and hello burton and blackwater and so on and so on hey when all these big companies milk the system with big contracts during the war why shouldn't the average grunt take part in alluding to what reason there's this killing guy have to not also try to make

a buck off the war it seems like in the world there are people who are often punished not because they steal but because they still far too little while not wearing nice suits but that's just my opinion. while some in ukraine want to join the e.u. a recent poll shows that fifty two percent of french workers want to leave the euro and that only thirty four percent of them think the new is a good thing only one of these two groups is right either being an e.u. member is horrible or it's a good thing the fact that we don't know is a market failure so we get lead free participants in the e.u. market give us a price signal that we don't know the value of membership. there

i marinate this is boom bust and these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up we're taking a closer look at to the ears fifteen billion dollar aid package to ukraine it might sound nice a first but we're taking a look at the fine print seen what's really behind the offer then i sat down earlier today with golden guru james turk in the co-founder and director of gold money dot com and he told me all about his new book the money bubble you won't want to miss my interview with him and finally in today's big deal edward harrison and i discuss how elites alit airline status is really what it all starts right now.

with each passing day ukrainian government's financial condition becomes more dire now according to research by morgan stanley. ukraine has about ten billion dollars in debt redemptions coming due in twenty fourteen alone now ukrainian officials have made it very clear that they need thirty five billion dollars over the next two years or else they're probably screwed to put it nicely they'll end up defaulting on some of the one hundred thirty six billion dollars in debt they currently hold an event that could end up sending shock waves through emerging markets now ukraine has less than twenty billion in foreign reserves and it owes eight billion including debts to the i.m.f. and as much as two billion to russian natural gas company gazprom but after wednesday it now looks like ukraine could get up to thirty billion dollars from the i.m.f. you and us collectively however it's not without conditions the european union is

preparing to offer the struggling country up to fifteen billion dollars in grants and loans in order to help shore up its new government and this comes only one day after the white house announced a one billion dollar loan guarantee for ukraine now many believe this deal would prepare ukraine's economy for eventual e.u. membership however it's unclear how much of this money will be available as cash cash that the ukraine can use to pay its existing debts and coming debt redemptions now if you remember back to november ukraine rejected a deal from the e.u. for a fifteen billion dollars loan from russia that deal being the russian one adding an added an additional five billion dollars in natural gas subsidies so ukraine opted for the russian offer in part because the russian deal gave cash immediately to ukraine along with those subsidies that i mentioned now the russian deal could have made ukraine ready for c.i.s. custom union membership now that's custom union is between russia belarus and cause

extend and it would lay the foundation for membership in this union however as we know today the rejection of the deal sparked by lindt protest in ukraine. and the us and the you have suggested that their aid is conditional conditional being the operative word conditional upon ukraine entering into a formal i.m.f. program and this would include harsh economic terms similar to what the i.m.f. and the e.u. have offered greece and portugal now ukrainian officials had already been negotiating with the i.m.f. for six years when they opted not to take the i.m.f. deal in november the i.m.f. has repeated the frozen aid over disagreements about ukraine's economic policy in october two thousand and nine ahead of national elections previous ukrainian president viktor. yushchenko signed a bill to increase the minimum wage by over twenty percent this place the i.m.f. chew your sixteen point four billion dollar bailout off the track and as a result of the i.m.f.

suspended payment in november two thousand and nine then you should go last to yet a coach an ex-president. timoshenko in feb twenty eighth ten american giving getting to be a little effort with these names and so in two thousand and ten under. the i.m.f. approved a two and a half year fifteen point two billion dollar loan program for ukraine now this was under the condition that ukraine enact austerity measures to reduce its budget deficit and reduce natural gas subsidies but in two thousand and eleven the i.m.f. froze this deal when key have failed to implement the required conditions what's more is the i.m.f. deal isn't ready cash some four billion dollars from the i.m.f. would come over the next several years in the form of loan and development grants while levin billion would come in the form of financing for infrastructure and development projects by european financial institutions but the real question is will this deal give ukraine the cash that it needs well the president of the

european commission jose emmanuel barroso was vague about all the details but what we do know is this there are also offered eleven billion euros over the next couple of years include. and two point two billion dollars in loans and two billion dollars in grants as well as four billion dollars in new credit from the european investment bank through two thousand and sixteen the deal has to be approved by all members that's one of the points though and before the money is available all those guys got to agree there are also said he discussed details on thursday with ukraine's interim prime minister while he's attending an emergency summit of leaders in kiev basically the bottom line is if ukraine wants the money they're going to have to fight for it.

some call it a barbarous relic others call it money james turkey is one of those guys who calls money now james has over forty years experience in international banking finance and investments in two thousand and one james co-founded gold money where he remains the director today he has a new book out called the money bubble what to do before it pops and i started my conversation with james earlier today by asking him what the book was all about take a look. money itself is important to society and we've really lost sight of what money is money is not credit or the promise to pay at some point in time in the future money is a tangible asset that you exchange for another tangible asset use anything other than a tangible asset is money you basically have payment risk and what we've seen is that payment risk comes with a lot of potential trouble two thousand and eight was a good example of the payment risk when lehman brothers went under there been other bags that a failed that highlighted the risks of the what we use now as as a form of money and my point is the key point of the book is that you know gold has

been money for five thousand years for the past four decades we've been using credit paper instead of actual physical metal and i think that this is created a bubble and ultimately gold going to go back to its rightful the traditional role at the center of global commerce now james where are we seeing the money bubble in terms of asset price inflation. well you've seen it in a number of different areas particularly the way the super rich are moving out of money into things we've seen it in collectibles you know in things like paintings an andy warhol painting went for one hundred million dollars not too long ago here in london we're seeing it in real estate where prices just keep going up and up because people understand that it's safer to own something like a building or a painting rather than currencies which are going to be based by central bank printing quantitative easing or whatever you want to call it there's a lot of risk associated right now with national currencies so people are moving

into things that's one of the reason why gold has been rising you know for the past . over a decade now i'm glad you bring that up and let's talk about all now gold is a tangible asset but it's not a productive asset and it's not farmland or stocks which are tied to revenue streams or potential economic production now i want you to take a quick listen to what warren buffett says about this. if you buy gold today you hold it one hundred years you can go to it every day and you're good you can do it and you can correct and you can flog. one hundred years now you know one ounce or go about it won't have done anything for you in between if you buy a hundred acres of farmland it will produce for you every year you can use that money to buy more farm or i'd you're going to have all kinds of things for one hundred years that will produce things for you and you still have a hundred acres of farmland that they have. now maybe he is trying to sell his property and the real question is why should anyone buying gold. because gold is

money you can put a stack of one hundred dollar bills in a vault and come back in a hundred years or a stack of british pound notes in a vault and come back when they're two years but those next to the gold gold will still have the same purchasing power of the pound and the british pound notes will not an ounce of gold still buys the same amount of crude oil that it did fifty sixty years ago and that's a gold still. buys a man suit an ounce of gold in roman ancient roman times would buy a toga for roman sun senator the thing is that we need money in our economy and the two types of money there's physical money like gold and silver or there's paper money which is based on promises and money that's based on promises is faulty it has problems it loses purchasing power as gold and silver do not and the reason why gold doesn't it's actually very important it's the only asset that we produce for accumulation all of the gold mine throughout history still exists and it's above ground stock and importantly it grows by about one and three quarters percent per

annum consistently year after year after year so it fits very well in milton friedman is what he called a scale rule but in order to have stable purchasing power you need a stable growth in the in the money supply and gold does this perfectly now recently our goals is to be getting a bit of a safe haven bid to the volatility in emerging markets why do you think the price of gold is increasing. well if if there are monetary problems around the world and those monetary problems can be caused by a variety of different things that could be caused by central bank actions that can be caused by threats of war or an outbreak of war you know people will move in out of illiquid things into safe things and of a safe a sub them all is gold and the reason why it's a tangible asset gold does not have any counterparty risk it's not based on a promise like all other national currencies so if you want to own something that's outside the banking system you really want to own physical gold and to give you

a good example is you know there's a lot of economic warfare that's been waged over the past few decades banks have been frozen for some individuals and when countries have an economic war against one another. the swift international payment system has been used as a an economic weapon in the past but all of these things are contingent upon national currencies gold is a tangible asset and you can avoid all of the risks of otherwise associated with national currencies when you own physical metal you know here's the question now if there's some sort of apocalyptic event you know you can't even gold and you can't really do anything with it it's better to have spam in that situation would you not agree. but what you do with gold is you use it for economic calculation in other words you measure the prices of goods and services or you measure the amount of purchasing power that it can convey it does what money is supposed to do it also does another part that money supposed to do it preserves purchasing power over long periods of time as i just explained

a moment ago the only thing that gold doesn't do is it doesn't generally circulate as currency and the reason why it doesn't is because of an economic principle called gresham's law where the bad money drives out the good money drives the good money out of circulation the bad money gets spent and the good money gets saved so people spend their currencies and they save gold this is where it's been for the last forty years but as i was saying earlier i think gold will once again at some point in time in the future also become currency once more. already you know i want to talk about this i'm hearing reports of heavy buyers of gold in china and india yet meanwhile i'm also hearing about people in the west being net sellers of gold so the question is is there some sort of net flow of gold from the west to east. yeah that's absolutely right in the east where i actually spent most of the one nine hundred seventy s. living in asia and most of the one nine hundred eighty s. living in the middle east so i'm familiar with those parts of the world they have

an intuitive understanding that gold is money you know they might look at warren buffett statement about gold and scratch their heads as to why he would even say something like that because they understand intuitively that gold has usefulness utility in economic calculation as a form of money and what we've seen recently because central banks and central planners have been forcing the price down through interventions in the market the price of gold is very low it's not understood in the west how good value gold is it is very well understood in the east how good gold value is at these prices so you're seeing this flow of physical model from the west to the east what's being done here in the west is that paper prices paper market representations for physical gold but instead of physical gold themselves you know derivatives of various sorts are being used to keep the price lower because when you keep the price of gold lower it makes the dollar and the euro and other national currencies look better but what this does is for people who really understand gold usefulness and utility the opportunity to get out of national currencies and into physical

novel at very very attractive prices. time now for a very quick break but stick around because when we return more from my interview with james turk then in today's big deal edward harrison and i talk about how much harder it's going to be for folks to get to the front of the plane thanks to many new models being implemented by airlines i'll tell you all about it but as we go to break here are a look at some your closing numbers at the bell today stick around. this comes from the heart you know. i've never even seen him in person for me this is the image of a hero. first coast but everyone but few people. like tony first spaceflights the product of good fortune or destiny. constantly fail to

learn strictly. throwing punches. was a turning point. go to. the first issue that this government this interim government preoccupied itself with was the future of the russian language in ukraine and that's at a time when. the country is in cannes so that shows you should read that government was prepared to take the issue is you know what appears to. many people at least in the west let's say a disproportionate use of force and the debbie facto occupation of crimea.

welcome back now for the second half of my conversation with james turk i started off by asking him you know what about this proposed new loan to the ukraine i want to ask him specifically where this money that was going to be proposed by the e.u. to the ukraine was going to come from this was his reaction to that question of there it's not really money it's just promises that they basically are making so you know you got to take this with a certain grain of salt you know money like everything else in the world world comes from hard work it doesn't come from some promise to pay in the future. here's a good example aaron if i go into a shop and i say i want to buy a loaf of bread and i'll pay the shopkeeper in a week's time the shopkeeper hasn't been paid if i go in and say here take this national currency the shopkeeper still hasn't been paid because until he takes that

promise the national currency he still accepting credit yes to take that promise and buy some good or service with it but if i go in and pay for it with a gold or silver coin there is no lingering obligations he's exchanging attention you know the good he's selling for the tentacle us that i'm using to pay and i think that's really the importance of gold it shows that there is no counterparty risk and ultimately you know this is what money has been for five thousand years and i think ultimately we're going to go back to that once the money bubble pops james when we spoke to doug casey about precious metals he indicated that he saw gold is unique in that it's not an industrial metal but savvy investors such as warren buffett they've been drawn to silver in the recent past and buffett famously bought one hundred thirty million ounces of silver in the late ninety's and then sold in two thousand and six what do you think of silverware as an investment vehicle. well i'm actually more bullish on silver than i am on gold and the reason why is that i look at the ratio of how many ounces of silver it takes to purchase

a one ounce of gold historically it's about sixteen ounces of silver is equal to one ounce of gold at the moment it's about sixty two or sixty three ounces of silver it's equal to one ounce of gold so relative to gold even though gold is cheap so over looks even cheaper now the problem with silver is that unlike gold which is basically has its value only because it's a form of money silver really has two roles it has an industrial role and it also has a monetary role in that sense its monetary role is can be seen as a substitute for gold because when you own sixty three ounces of silver it does the same thing for you as one ounce of gold at present it's money outside the banking system but because you have demand coming from these two different areas industrial and monetary silver can be very very volatile and therefore it's not for everybody but if you have concluded that you want to own some precious metals i do recommend that you look at silver and if you're prepared to accept the volatility in the risks associated with that have some such physical silver in your portfolio as well

generally i recommend no more than one third of your precious metals b. and so with the remaining two thirds and gold but again this is just a general statement everybody has to do what fits their own personal circumstances when buffett sold itself are some believe he was forced out of the new silver asked now what's your take on paper sell for. my take on paper silver is the same as paper gold of way to it all car you want to own the real thing let me put it this way you have to decide why you want to own gold or why you want to own so over if you're looking at them as a safe haven a tangible asset then you have to buy the actual physical metal on the other hand if you're a speculator or a professional trader and you want to profit from fluctuations in the price of silver or gold you know buying it if you think it's going to go up or selling it short if you think it's going to go down then you can deal in the paper gold or the

paper silver market you know futures contracts options and things of that nature you know leave that paper market to the professionals leave it to the speculators for the average individual what you really need to look at is physical gold and physical silver and you can do it in either two ways you can buy it and store it yourself or you can buy it and have someone store it for you if you choose this professional storage option make sure they have good governance procedures so that you know that your gold and silver always safe. there's i want to ask you just paper silver like silver in c.s. have the actual physical commodity backing their shares there or do you think they're just playing fast and loose they have the derivatives market. you know that's really a very good question aaron you know back ten years ago when the e.t.s. wrister first started appearing i was quite optimistic about them and the potential that they would have. on the price of gold and you know make it a convenient way to buy physical silver but you know after studying it and in

particular reading through all of the prospectuses of the various e.t.s. there are so many loopholes in there that i really question whether all of the physical metal is actually there so again i see an e.t.f. not really as a representation not really as a way of acquiring physical metal i just see it as a again a paper gold or a paper silver scheme and it should be left to people who are looking to benefit from the fluctuations in gold or silver price rather than somebody who's looking to gold or silver as a safe haven. now recently a lot of people are talking about the prospect of deflation yet you're concerned with inflation why is that. well i'm actually concerned with hyper inflation to be quite honest the reason why i'm concerned about this is that if you go back and look in there been many hyperinflation. and you know the in the past century they manifest themselves in different ways but they have always the same cause

a government has control of the monetary process the government wants to spend money it's spending more money than it's receiving in revenue which forces it to go out and borrow and eventually the governments reach a stage where people are either unwilling or unable to lend to the government anymore money so the government then turns to the central bank and forces the central bank to turn this government paper into currency used to be called money printing now it's called quantitative easing but when you turn government paper into currency your ultimate lee on the road to hyperinflation or the destruction of the currency and is really a function of two different things you know we talk about the quantity of money and one and two and three but we nor most of the time the demand for money with money like any other goods or service has a supply and demand and what happens as too much money printing occurs eventually the demand for that currency lessons and whenever you have

a lessening demand for something it's price or in the case of money it's purchasing power declines and we're seeing this now again in certain asset classes mainly the super rich you know get it they understand that there's a flight from the currency they've already begun by spending their money on any kind of tangible asset they can get their their hands on rather than leaving their money sitting in a bank having a risk of a bank failure having a risk of a bail and having a risk of inflation or much more money printing and my sense of it is that this momentum this trend that's been underway now for four decades basically since we stopped the formal link to the gold standard back in one thousand nine hundred one has enabled the. cumulation of misguided policy and misguided conventional wisdom and that's the essence of the money bubble and what we as individuals have to do is recognize what's going on and take the steps to protect ourselves come what may particularly if this money bubble pops which i expect that it will. that was james

turk author of the money bubble what to do before it pops time now for example big deal. in today's big deal edward harrison sits down with me to discuss air miles for money or miles from i've been talking a lot about exclusive fancy stuff lately but specifically what we wanted to talk about today is how airline companies are revamping their frequent flyer programs based on ticket prices not miles traveled is this just another step toward separating the plebeians from the patricians is that. now in twenty fifteen delta airlines will start awarding customers reward miles based on how much they paid for their ticket instead of the distance that they traveled now joining southwest airlines and their rapid rewards program they have something similar southwest airlines out bloomberg businessweek has reported that united airlines also plans to

peg rewards to spending levels in addition to mileage requirements so read can you explain what the economics are behind this program what is going on here boils down to is that you know everyone in is. a loyalty program and so. what they've seen is that they get to the huge margins first class and business class and so with this loyalty program that they want they don't want just they want to be able to separate they want to have price discrimination based on the people that are going to give them the biggest margin and they can only do that if they can put people in different tiers and know that those are the people those are the customers that are most profitable right now they don't know that everyone who is in the higher tears or the profit they just might have just been travelling a lot that year because they have sick grandmother because i said yeah you're really cheap tickets and they were right we're going. hi acar priceline or

something existing of a chip on but we talked about a story just like this just a week or so ago and we discussed the exclusive amenities offered to high paying customers by airlines now these exclusive amenities come with a price tag so take a look at how much a round trip flight on cathay pacific between new york and hong kong cost i took a lot fortunately the company paying for it was sixteen hundred dollars in coach sixty one dollars just for courage seventy six hundred for business and nineteen k. it's a fact one thousand came first class now that's a huge gap between coach and first how are airlines going to use this huge gap to determine this status that's the question we'll you know i think the two examples that you gave were interesting with united. in the delta example is that you know the six hundred was that nineteen thousand that's going to be what you're going to get in terms of miles so you need to see this huge tender up in terms of you know

what you get in their loyalty program versus the other one which is exactly like it used to be except they have sort of a cap that you know it's not just going to be miles to get you into our program but if you don't spend the money you can't get it isn't that like having a fancy credit card you have to pay just to hold the credit card you know wasn't aware that i don't know you have your green card and then you have the next two years so they you know they have already pre auditions you so to speak in the car the platinum card but the thing about those cards that's interesting is that once you're in the program you stay with this if you don't meet the requirements every year than you are now here's the question why do you think airlines are now paying more attention to this a lead customer or not even a lead but high paying customer customer now versus before well you know the really hard over the ten to fifteen years ever since deregulation it's a hard industry it's a difficult industry and. decided you know look. you know we've got to make sure

that all of our loyalty programs go along with the incentives that we're trying to offer we want these businesspeople and these first class people to feel like kings you know it's good goes back in love with this whole sort of plutonic me thing that people are talking about unfortunately you have this this this class division right or we're seeing that reflected in terms of what people can pay and therefore the airlines are getting into the microcosm of life that is air travel it's kind of scary that's all for now back to you can see all segments on. you tube dot coms backslash the best our team tweeted us at our nate at edward n.h. shout we're out. your friend post a photo from a vacation you can't afford college different. the boss

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breaking news here on our team international the crimean parliament unanimously votes for the region to become part of russia the move it will be put to a popular ballot in ten days time meanwhile the u.s. visa restrictions on russian and crime you know officials also. my first three were not all rich but some but the. elite phone call between top european officials reveals the snipers firing at the crowds and police in kiev legibly hired by the opposition leadership. been fighting bullets just like this one and our crew recalls how it was caught up in the sniper fire as a team of filmed in a hotel in downtown kiev. and revelations of the from opposition

ordering the my done shootings or fail to make it to the mainstream headlines. for hours it went unnoticed as major media outlets a step up the rhetoric against russia we look at the under reporting of key information on the violence in ukraine. is just one past nine pm here in the russian capital you live with us on our international you're with me would say to our breaking news story right now the korean crimean parliament votes to join russia the final decision will be made in the referendum in ten days time parties maria fanaa is in crimea. crimea that used to be part of the russian empire has very close ties to its big neighbor

with more than half of its population being russians and with the russian language being used by the absolute majority of locals could join russia again and today on thursday crimea is parliament voted to troy and russia it is now up to crimean people to decide the republic future the referendum is expected to be held on march the sixteenth initially this was a shed year old for twenty six of may and then for the end of march and we asked today crimea as prime minister why local authorities are in such a rush the situation in cuba is out of control radical groups have taken power and the former position is afraid of the crimea and oppressing us to make a decision as soon as possible and karen to security mr external has also read to rated today that the situation here on the peninsula is now tool to be under

control of local authorities and security is provided by police first and second by so-called self-defense forces made up of locals former military because our troops and also some volunteers from russia and this external said that he is unhappy with how some western media describes the situation here the western media is fueling tension here trying to show russia is using force to manipulate decisions i assure you it's not true where we are now reporting from simferopol the capital of crimea which is till today part of ukraine but again the referendum over crimea status showed you for march the sixteenth and maybe in ten days we can see another country here so in ten days the locals will have to choose between two option one is to stay in ukraine the other should become part of russia now on the heels. crimea announcing a referendum the u.s.

said it wants to impose visa restrictions on russian and crimean officials over what it's calling a friend to ukraine's sovereignty russian foreign minister lavrov responded by saying it's only aggravating the situation media coverage is feels with unilateral how they set their goal of valuations i'm draw a line did once again to john kerry who seems to understand everything that is far from promoting sustainable corporation would do but it's not possible to work in announces a year of ultimatums and threats we talked on these issues with political analysts not xander nick asafa he told us despite all the strong words washington's voicing it can hardly afford serious means against russia what we're witnessing at the moment even the news coverage itself is basically so inflammatory it is provoking violence even where there is no violence for the united states to introduce heating sanctions is out of the question because the american economy is not doing well at

all despite all that talk of wonderful everything is the national debt there's a strong no make over there probably will never be able to repay it so there you go all the help they can get but on the other hand they need for domestic audiences to shoulder the leadership of america to show that they're doing something about it so these so-called smart sanctions which are targeted at individuals that doesn't really prove anything that really worth anything is just for the domestic consumption nothing else basically. liev is also money sanctions again so russia european leaders are at the moment in an emergency meeting in brussels and meanwhile some politicians are warning that the western policies should think twice before introducing any punitive measures against russia now the german foreign amid serb believes that sanctions will only damage any diplomatic efforts towards a solution in ukraine while a fenland prime minister whose country sure has

a thirteen hundred kilometers long border with russia russia believes in recession will most likely backfire on those who oppose them meanwhile lithuania's prime minister says punitive measures will do no good to either side we talked to german member of parliament philip misspelled or who think sanctions i knew whose lose scenario if we would talk about broader economic sanctions it would hit the european you're calling me very strong and very hard and i believe that would bet that would be bad for both sides it could hurt so weak economy economy in the periphery of the euro zone for example and one of the one one another point is that we have a strong connection between germany and the russian federation when it comes to see exports of gas and we need the russian the russian gas on the one side on the other inside russia needs money to stabilize the russian budget the problem is once if

sanctions are started maybe the situation will escalate more and the dialogue will stop and that would be the worst outcome we can imagine. meanwhile ukraine's a struggling to find a path from the turmoil mourning the dozens who were killed in the blast set which rocked the streets of kiev several weeks ago now let's take a look at these images from kiev which have been sending shock waves across the world over eighty people were killed in the country's worst violence in yes and it's now been revealed the snipers who were shooting at the crowd and the police where legibly in the pay of the former opposition that's according to a leaked a phone call between the e.u.'s foreign policy chief and the historian foreign minister here's artie's peter oliver with the details of that leak. we've heard from the stunning foreign minister he confirmed that yes his voice is all not recording though what he has said though is that the message in that phone call is being called street by the media he said that he didn't make any claims the

opposition leaders as they were at the time were behind the shootings but we can have a little listen again now to exactly what he did say miss not much room for the misconception so that varies i was stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not going to call rich but it was somebody from the new coalition no the the alleged use of snipers by in a coup of his forces and the bad good riot police who were just near behind me on independence square that was one of the the main causes of outrage around the world over eighty people were killed just behind me on independence square among them twenty six police officers if it does turn out that these claims are correct it could have potentially repercussions. and there's also more evidence suggesting those leading the protests in kiev could be behind the shooting these pictures

showing the sniper's rifle being discovered in a car leaving my done at the time of the protests the man searching it is one of my members that again machines set of reacting to people's calls to inspect the rifle the man who was seen driving away in the car i suppose she is now the head of the interim president's administration this was a recent a staggering leak many believe should help reveal the true face of those now in power here. i sincerely hope there's. awareness amongst the people as commentators said it is a year it was mentioned they you knew about this they know and they sat on this information for a few days until it was leaked and what actually has expired. it really does not surprise me one bit one of the most powerful and universal americans the spreading idea of regional progress and this is used in politics to. you before

so why was. this not generally the population of europe here is that americans. ukraine needs to be saved from a democratically elected president. our cheese our correspondents well so caught up in the sniper fire in kiev while covering the clashes bullets a shattered through the windows of a hotel room work crew was trying and staying there as well as working there as they try to film the escalating street on the violence and the government collapsed due to special forces that had been tasked with ensuring order were disbanded by the new self-appointed authorities many of the officers took refuge in crimea and that's where you got a piece going of caught up with one of their commanders. at some point we clearly understood that this was no longer like the peaceful protests of two thousand and four and two thousand and seven this time it was all about provocation not only

violent but dirty tactics by the rioters while we were on our own we didn't even have non-lethal weapons but the plan of those who masterminded this was to make the birchard force crumble to be moralized and pressure us to switch sides but that didn't happen and then came the worst the shooting rounds were fired at both sides but as i've already told you we didn't have any weapons so it was so difficult to understand what was happening but officers just began falling to the ground one by one to what became clear people were dying from bullets but again no shots could have been fired by barrett could foresee i'm sure there was some outside force a third party involved in the provocations and the deaths on both sides it was an organized team of professionals. so reporting from the front line other violence in here summed up the details of the tragic events like this he remembers the warnings from the riot police when he was

reporting on the streets of kiev saying someone from the side of the protestors were firing shots you can follow on facebook and twitter to learn more. in the. tensions are running high within ukraine and internationally with many media outlets adding fuel to the fire and aggression has become a popular term used to describe russia's actions and as our she's gone and she can has been finding out today strong words like the backing of verified information. aggression is the word that you often hear in the u.s. media and from u.s. officials with regard to russia's presence in ukraine what they fail to show is the aggression. it's very difficult to talk about aggression when you show thousands of people cheering for russia in different parts of ukraine right maybe that's why you

don't see this kind of footage on us t.v. very often but if you do see this coverage in which russia's military presence there in itself is presented as an intervention what the end curs and pundits often fail to mention is that russian have an agreement under which russia has a lot to deploy twenty five thousand troops in ukraine it now has presumably sixteen thousand or so so you get a kick picture where the u.s. presents anything that goes against the interests of those who took power in kiev as an aggression and the revolution there as this peaceful takeover of power. these brave ukrainians took to the streets in order to stand peacefully against tyranny. and to demand democracy. so instead they were met with strikers who picked them off one after the other one wonders if the police with molotov

cocktails and shooting at them qualifies as standing peacefully according to secretary kerry a huge part of ukraine had no say in the power grab but my don secretary kerry apparently present it as a triumph of democracy. we've heard no comments from him on the leaks conversation between the e.u. foreign affairs chief catherine ashton in a stony and foreign minister where they talk about every day. why don't the leaders knock unocal which gave orders to snipers and the media on something like this i mean you would expect breaking news everywhere we're talking about evidence that those who are now celebrating victory in kiev may have well ordered snipers to shoot both peaceful protesters and the police but no none of that for hours it went unnoticed because it doesn't fit into the narrative as it but what the u.s. media was quick to pick up on were unverified reports like this one. robert serry has agreed to give up his mission here in ukraine he is of course the un

special envoy to ukraine he's from the netherlands a father of three and he was taken against his will a short time ago by militia so after a great deal of hysteria the u.n. confirmed the envoy was not kidnapped but he did come across a group of protesters and the envoy who was apparently escorted by police at the time decided to leave to avoid further tension the general picture that you get is that of the u.s. mainstream media jumping on anything very fighter on verify to present russia as an aggressor without much or any knowledge of what's happening on the ground and u.s. officials wealth they continue their self-righteous tirade while being gauging actual acts of aggression around the world with innocent people dying every day in drone strikes are from violence in countries that were destabilized by the u.s. in washington i'm going to check on our team.

we spoke to former u.s. presidential candidate ron paul who says washington doesn't practice what it preaches. for us to lecture anybody about violating sovereignty what about the sovereignty of iraq and afghanistan and yemen and north africa. constantly being involved pakistan and the drone missiles we have eight hundred bases around the world where one hundred thirty countries were always involved it seems in somebody else's election and we preach democracy we finally got democracy theoretically you know in egypt there was an election and of course we didn't like the person they elected so we said let's go back to the military so i don't know i don't like hypocrisy and for us to preach one thing at the same time behind the scenes we're doing things to stir up trouble for many many different reasons. there are many pieces of the ukrainian puzzle good some leave out of sight r.t.

dot com has five questions that the western leaders choose not to on thursday and take a look. at still to come in the program fans but not leaving the fight well they're heading. home in a family with three children and we're going to keep. coming up will be reporting on how one palestinian family is standing its ground while israel plows the hate with its expansion program stay with us on. this first issue that this government this interim government preoccupied itself which was the future of the russian language in ukraine and that's at a time when. the country's in cannes so that's the sort of shows. that government was prepared to take issue with. you know what appears to be. too many people at

least in the west let's say a disproportionate use of force and the death thanks joe. occupation of crimea. the. economic down in the final. day of the old shanghai and the rest of life during the case will be every week. thanks for staying with us here for more international news the u.k.

government is accused of covering up the arrest and resignation of a close aide of the prime minister is being investigated in a child pornography case one of the officials job was working on internet filters that will prevent children from assessing accessing inappropriate content artist laura smith brings us more. his name is patrick rock and he is in fact a veteran conservative party david cameron's deputy chief of staff he's been called cameron spics and he's had what one might call unparalleled access to access to power over a very long time over the last four decades right there in the heart of government the irony lies in the fact that he's also been closely involved in during our government policy internet pornography filters and this is a man who was arrested arrested recently on suspicion of what everybody's calling an offense related to child abuse images so not just pornography but what appears

to be child pornography now his arrest happened on february the twelfth and he then resigned but this was all on the quiet downing street appears to have covered it up until it was confronted with it now over the last three weeks no one said anything about this but apart from the prime minister who apparently has known for three weeks he said he was. correctly that he didn't want to brief preemptively on a criminal investigation against a member of his staff but his critics who are mainly labor members of parliament opposition say that this raises a number of questions for example what level of security did patrick rock have is that other stuff that we don't know about it's also emerged by the way that rock had previously been accused of sexual harassment which was dealt with by his boss at downing street to a political figure rather than a civil servant they could not very usual so again some sort of oddity going on

there the prime minister is being accused of a cover up and his labor critics say that this undermines the entire credibility and effectiveness of the government. online for you right now while their parents called tighter gun control and stream streams children may be finding ways to buy guns by a social network it's facebook and instagram now promising to crack down on users trying to sell guns to minors via social media you won that full story click away on our t.v. dot com. also while you're there doctors in the us say they have cured a baby with hiv by starting treatment just hours after its birth but more on this medical breakthrough log on to our website. while israel is pushing for more homes being built on the occupied palestinian territory locals say of their being bullied and forced out of their homes a middle

east correspondent when do you need a family who's been desperately fighting to stay on their land. omar had judges home has been cast down through the generations but now there's pressure on him to move television complaining he's on the wrong side of the wall israel is building to separate the palestinian autonomy from israel and all the israeli commander if you brought us an electronic fence behind the wall and they were done away with the gate so whatever you will do we're not leaving our house in our land i first met on march two years ago then he told me he felt like he was living in a prison that he refused office to move i don't want money i want my one. two years ago the tractors are busy plowing over fields around his house but because it was on the israeli side of the border the plan was to surround his home with a five meter high electric fence and he always wife and three children wanted to leave they would need to go through an underground tunnel monitored by security

cameras that would connect them to the other side of the wall and palestine we came here expecting to find something different i thought we'd see it security cameras state of the art technology but instead what we found is much the same two years have passed and nothing. in the malice or a near the israelis the occupation country we work slowly and the boys in are slowly because they do not want to hear you what the world as well. as you can see when they finish building this tunnel they will close it with a gate the owner of the house will have a key but no one can come and visit them without permission from the army and it should be within specific hours of omar is now sick and i'm able to work he doesn't even have the strength to go through the tunnel with me in the backyard i can't explain to you how i feel even animals have rights how can a family with three children and women in a cage feel almost vows he will fight for his home until the end policy r.t.

one larger village palestinian autonomy. some news in greece now police in greece are fighting a guess and use pepper spray to disperse protesters angry at job cuts and severe austerity measures clashes broke out in central athens when a group of demonstrators trying to break through a police call gone during a visit by the german president greece has been dependent on rescue loans from international lenders with the germany being the largest contributor and a backer of the assertive agenda. the libyan government has says us the son of former leader moammar gadhafi has been extradited from nizkor libya it wants to try is saadi gadhafi from stealing state funds and for armed intimidation is now in custody in tripoli where he fled after his father was killed during the twenty eleven revolution egypt had previously refused to hand him over due to concerns he

would face the death penalty. and later airstrike in the god province in eastern afghanistan has killed five local troops and wounded eight others the alliances say it will be looking into the circumstances behind the incident saying the soldiers were killed accidentally an operation tensions are running high between the afghan government and allied forces who have been blamed for numerous civilian deaths since the invasion more than twelve years ago. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has cut diplomatic ties with hama accused in the country's government of conspiring against him the decision comes amid large scale commemorations marking one mia since the death of a former leader of this last month my dear accused of america instigating mass anti-government protests in venezuela and expelled three u.s. diplomats. coming up russia and u.s.

relations and how they could be affected by the crisis in ukraine. and has show world next year r.t. international day stay with us for. u.s. army specialist albert kelly the third is accused of running a scam in which he helped an afghan trucking company steal huge amounts of fueled by cooking the army books and making it seem as though the fuel had been used when in reality it was diverted the accused kelly her of making it into a twenty five thousand gallons of fuel variation to a bureaucratic black hole and four dollars a gallon that was a lot of cash obviously this is wrong but in comparison to the profiteering made

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perhaps once again if you would remember that this week marks the fifth anniversary of the reset ceremony during which the russian and american officials watch to put their relationship on a new more constructive flooding is the latest over charge a direct consequence of that reset well to discuss that i'm now joined by angelus down director of the center for your region russia and its european studies at georgetown university dr stan thank you very much for taking part in the program well it's good to be in the program while. piri are again facing one of the biggest crisis in bilateral relationship this time over ukraine and in your latest book the limits of partnership years russian relations in the twenty first century you make a point that russia has always been extremely sensitive about the west and the united states in particular acting in its neighborhood now. we have never seen such a dramatic reaction from russia before and i wonder if this extraordinary reaction on the part of the russian president on the part of russia is also in

a way every spawns two extraordinary actions on the part of the west and the united states in particular well first of all let me just go back to the five years ago when secretary hillary clinton met with foreign minister all of roles she presented him the reset button which said reset in english and it said pettigrew sky in russian and of course mr lavrov pointed out that that's the wrong word that's the word for overload in english it's paid is that grew sky and then i remember commerce on todd a headline the next day clinton lover of course the wrong button so in a sense this is a relationship that has been overloaded there have been so many issues where we have disagreed they have been other issues where we have worked together and i see what's happened recently in ukraine obviously on a number of different levels what triggered it was the problems within ukraine itself and the dissatisfaction of the people with the government the failure to sign an agreement with the european union is

a symbol of that but it goes much deeper than that but isn't it also true that the united states and the west and russia to some extent were all too eager to exploit some of the disenchantment that the population that the people of ukraine felt to death though it is and when it comes to the west it is true that many people on my down of were dissatisfied but that doesn't mean that. a democratically elected government needed to be deposed especially within a couple of months from the next elections well i don't think anyone in the west foresaw that there was going to be you know what was going to happen in november i mean the e.u. was offering ukraine a reasonable package obviously not as much as president putin and russia offered mr young a car which later on. in the united states was the. wasn't really present i mean the united states basically was allowing or wanted the europeans to work out their deal with ukraine the u.s.

really only stepped in once all the demonstrations of begun and it wasn't clear what was going to happen now i understand that the russian media have portrayed this as something supported by the us by the europeans and that these are court unquote fascists but you know the situation there is much more complicated and this is not something that anyone in the west wanted to see a breakdown of governmental structures in their stand let me take an issue with what you just said about the russian media and their portrayal of the station after everything we saw happening on my dime in a number of american officials showing out there with those intercepted phone conversations it's really hard to believe that the united states was this impartial observer but switching gears a little bit. on to use the president putin and made his first appearance before our russian media here how the news conference which gave him a chance to explain his rationale and he was adamant that russia's actions were

represented a legitimate response to what he sees as illegitimate seizure of power and now in addition to answering questions he also posed one and let me play it for you i would like you to answer what he actually asked. given you know for me there's a big question. your my colleagues. and you know i've been discussing the ukrainian crisis over the lot of our partners has this been done. in the state department he understands how decision makers in washington think what was the point as far as americans are concerned of siding with this unconstitutional government or endorsing this and. institutional change of government because i mean elections are just around the corner and it's still an

open question how long that government will stay in power well i mean let me take you back to february the twenty first all right so the agreement was signed between the various groups and the foreign ministers of germany other european countries and of course mr lew kean was in the room although i know he didn't sign it then something happened right you have a covert you left nobody's quite clear exactly how or why that happened but that was not something that was instigated by any western country so then you're done then you have to deal with the reality that mr you had a covert has disappeared nobody knew where he was for a couple of days then of course he went to russia and you have people in kiev who say well we're going to be the interim government i mean otherwise it would have been a complete breakdown of all governmental structures all all or in order to so you know the u.s. and the european countries are now dealing with this interim government which of course wasn't a liked it by anyone but there's otherwise there'd be a total how a vacuum because missy undercover just disappeared well enough to stand what's in

paris may i have nothing to do with this with unocal is disappearing but they may have something to do with him balding to protesters to the degree that they resorted to the use of force because we know that some of the elements within the protest movement. aren't they used force to occupy government buildings mr unocal which in his latest press conference claimed that he was shot at by protesters that he's convoy was attacked saying. share some of the responsibility of what they can is that we saw on the streets of ukraine by emboldening protesters encouraging them to the anti well but you know the shootings first of all a lot of the shootings were also by trained snow. those who were clearly not protesters but they were you know from some different government structures i mean those units of now being disbanded the west had nothing to do with arming anyone in

the my dad. and so you know it doesn't bear responsibility for the violence there's obviously a lot of different stories but clearly there was violence on both sides but of the eighty people who died most of them were the victims of government related forces who were trained snipers who were shooting them so again i think one you know one has to accept that there's an enormous amount there was an enormous amount of chaos there but the west wasn't involved in any violence well the west again certainly wasn't involved and any violence but it sided with the protesters from the very beginning and that again. may have created an impassioned everything everything goes essentially now turning our attention to russia's actions we proved a lot of controversy not only in the west but also in russia this threat of using force to restore constitutional order in ukraine now i'm sure you know that russia

has a lot of aqua t.v. in ukraine a lot and stake in ukraine and i'm talking about. the russian base there the possibility of ukraine joining nato and not to mention you know extensive economic cultural historic ties between the two countries now given how much of that was threatened by these armed seizure of power and by the emergence of this government the government that is clearly on to russia is it's really surprising that russia reacted in the way a deed did have any other options of protecting its inches there well i think we have to be very careful so i agree with you that this interim government immediately trying to pass legislation degrading the russian language and its use in ukraine that was clearly a mistake and they shouldn't have done it and i guess that lore is now no longer operate if i mean. i understand obviously russia does have very important equities it has the black sea bass and of course it has a lease now until twenty forty two it's not clear to me that they are not aware of

any threats that were made in kiev that somehow they would revise the issue of the basing of the black sea fleet there no one raised that so the question is did brush are in order to protect its equities there didn't need to have such a strong showing of force i think that's the issue no no one is questioning that russia had the right to protect what it has in crimea but it's how it did it just and what was russia's other option because in the beginning of this crisis russia clearly pursued a diplomatic route it was. you know part of the any gauche ations that were taking place in kiev and was calling for a diplomatic solution and you know you don't need to take my word for it even the some of the foreign diplomats for example the polish foreign minister to sluff sikorsky who is hardly buys over is russia sad that when the ousted president

viktor yushchenko was negotiating a deal with the opposition that he reportedly received a call for putin encouraging him to make concessions so could it be also the case that after trying to place to play nice and civil and abide by the rules most will simply realize that the strategy was not only naif it was foolish because it essentially left to russia. potentially endangering all its interests there because the more concessions were made the more opposition the ante but there was no threat to the black sea fleet or true crime scene from this very weak and fragile interim government i mean it it only being in power if that's the way right way to describe it for a few days so it there's nothing that precipitated the need for this huge show of force the issue. is. what appears to be to many people at least in the west let's say

a disproportionate use of force and the de facto patient of crimea doctor sent you just mentioned that there were absolutely nothing that would. let us think that these government would threaten in any way russia's long term security interest but then you also mention that the first issue that this government this interim government preoccupied itself with was the future of the russian language in ukraine and that's at a time when half of the countries in care so that's the sort of shows you that should jacques to read that government was prepared to take but the question i would like to pose to you obviously is that matter was very controversial i mean it is still hotly debated within russia d. the idea of russian troops being in ukraine for whatever reason is highly painful for many russian people but. living the moral aspect of that aside isn't that also true that dive proved highly effective as well because you know after weeks and

months of trying to negotiate with the opposition and trying to. persuade the opposition and the west to come to some sort of compromise here russia has everything you've ever wanted i mean the other day five former american ambassadors to ukraine had an open letter published and they leased pretty much everything russia has requested so we may not like this military option then but it seems to be that is it is highly effective i agree with you that obviously by using the military option russia has getting what it wanted it's de facto you know crimea will be a part of russia or even if it's not technically proud of the russian federation it's certainly not going to have the same relationship to the ukrainian state you know if fresh had wondered before to have that ukraine join the eurasian union. that i can see that happening or at least for a very long time and clearly with all of the moves that have been announced by the

united states and also by the european union it has cost russia something politically and it certainly cost russia something economically i would say there are costs for russia they may well be outweighed from the kremlin's point if you buy the gains but this is not without costs as well well i totally agree with you the only. thing that i would add is that putin made it clear that he's not interested in and next thing crimea and i think it would be an extremely difficult undertaking for him to do a given the current circumstances but let's take a short break now when we come back is the ukrainian stand of a turning point in the u.s. russian relationship or rather the point of no return that's coming up in a few moments on worlds apart.

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anniversary of these famous reset and in your book you make a point that every new american administration attempted to improve bilateral ties but i think the silly here in moscow is that what americans really mean by improving ties is essentially having a more compliant less independent and less assertive russia is there any merit to that well i know that's definitely how many russians see that and we've always see heard that from president putin a number of times i don't believe that that was the intention in the beginning am i would say that the reset of president obama. was a somewhat more realistic reset and it certainly did achieve quite a lot in president obama's first term and we can mention the new start nuclear arms control agreement cooperation with russia on more sanctions on iran we can mention a cooperation now in afghanistan looking towards the withdrawal of forces there russia joining the w t o so there were achievements there but i think the brill

ation ship became more complicated when mr putin announced his intention to return to the kremlin because that reset was very much built on a personal relationship between president obama and president medvedev well you mentioned some of the strategic achievements of the fourth reset a lot by president obama president and partially president putin and all of those issues they're dealing with should teach. goals for the global security i wonder if all of that was worth putting on hold reach is most likely going to happen within the next few and. probably years for the sake of endorsing a pro western government in one european country well i would say that the relationship between the u.s. and russia had really deteriorated even before these ukrainian events and i think from the u.s. point of right view the major event was the granting of political asylum to the

n.s.a. leaker edward snowden this was something that the white house argued very strenuously against president putin made the choice i understand why he did from his point of view i'm sure was quite a rational choice and so the relationship had been on a downward trajectory anyway but let me just say that despite all of that the u.s. and russia continue and will continue to work together on these global issues where they both have an interest in where russia is in a very important parent but just out of curiosity i mean the you are renowned that could damage your work in the state department for a pretty long time and i know that this relationship this partnership between russia and the united states has always been pretty challenging and it was always limited but the one american decision makers are considering options considering what position they should take in any given country surely they take into account sensibilities of their partners and when he deal with ukraine i'm sure they knew

well in advance how sensitive data would be for russia and completely discounting russia's interest completely discounting russia's fears and in seeing some of those far right are going ization seeing some of those. radical protesters. taking part in those demonstrations endorsing the unconstitutional change of government all of that from the russian point of view it's simply very difficult to understand why would. endorsing. this government be outweigh in much more and much more important strategic. issues that he mentioned are this indeed what we see in ukraine as a result of all of this is crimea in a similar status to say transnistria or of the and south especially in other words a region of a country where it functions as an as

a quayside state itself and isn't under the control of the central government and that really then makes the entire sort of post cold war order that more fragile and so i think that's partly has played into this now you could go back and say maybe it shouldn't have been cast as the european union versus the eurasian union but that's how it came to be cast and so i think the question is are we now seeing the breakdown of what we sort had been achieved in europe after the end of the cold war the dissent you just mentioned the issue of i'm not saying or for tyshan ing annexing crimea or partitioning ukraine given giving our crimea some special status and in your own book you describe russia as a status quo power and russia was pretty content with the way things were going in ukraine whether there was a pro western government of viktor yushchenko and yuliya tymoshenko whether there was. the government. going to college though i would describe it as pro russian

because i think victor unocal which was really trying to play both sides of the aisle but russia was pretty content to the status quo and what russia was really defending is the status quo whereas in fact it is the united states we decided to revision in a way what was happening in ukraine and. again endorsing this unconstitutional change of government all that i think would have to get into a discussion about what the status quo is i mean i think think from the russian point of view the status quo of blunt wants to defend is a ukraine that that doesn't well a that doesn't choose to go with the your european union. and be hopefully from the russian point if you were during the eurasian union or at least if not that remain strictly neutral in the sense of not being in either of those economic bodies and i think both sides now you know understand that the status quo that we had in ukraine prior to the twenty first doesn't exist anymore now. you secretary of state john

kerry warned that there will be costs for russia's military presence in ukraine a you also alluded to costs indifference part of the program and what's interesting is that logic here putin as well said today that if indeed there will be costs that they will affect not only russia but also the united states how far do you think both administrations build their bomb administration and the put in and mr asian are willing to go in punishing each other well i think there's a limit to how much they can punish each other first of all in the u.s. russian case we don't have much of an economic relationship we're not like the europeans and therefore you know now i think the admin our administration is talking about freezing the potential trade investment treaty which we might have said. during the g eight summit and they're talking about you know not pushing ahead with some business deals we were supposed to have a delegation of russian officials including the energy minister in washington this

week talking about energy deals so you know you can suspend those but that doesn't i don't think that in purges are huge costs and russia because as i say we don't have that much of a of an economic relationship so i think that the u.s. has limited leverage speaking about the cost it's clear that a move like that certainly has reputational costs for putin personally and for russia as a country and you know invoking the use of force may be fine for the united states it doesn't treat you regularly but i think it's it is an extraordinary thing for russia both domestically and internationally and i think it had. you know the decision to even threaten the use of force was extremely difficult for the russian president and to that effect i want to play something that he said just before this recent crisis broke out let's listen lympics our very important yours is i believe and i would like to be so open the door not only to russia but also to. the hearts

of our people. look in seadrill there is nothing to fear he said that just. days before the events of the kermie immediately after the olympics and. i wonder how do you reconcile the two his desire to show russia as a more and welcoming nation on one hand and on the other hand giving orders that will clearly give plenty of all munition to russia russia haters in the united states and in the west well i ask myself the same question and so do many of my colleagues here because in fact the structure lympics were very successful i know that there was excessive criticism before the games began in the west about a whole range of things but you know the evaluation of the olympics at the end was really pretty positive including in really all of our media here the athletes had a very good experience so then the question is why just so shortly after showing that russia could host a very successful olympic games why then we have this military incursion and what i

mean one can only say that presumably it was more important to do this militarily and to show you know the strong fist than it was to continue this you know showing the face of russia that everyone responds responded very positively to so and in some sense a lot of the goodwill that was built up in sochi has now dissipated because of what's happened in crimea well that's just and that's not overestimate the amount of goodwill that was created by the olympics in the west that thing. looking at the coverage in the western media tour was pretty meager but. what i want to add is that the the fact of incursion is still highly disputed by russia russia the us. does not recognize west in a leg ations of. the incursion of its troops into the ukrainian territory but. coming back to the sound bite that we just played given how much. putin was

personally invested into the olympics and how strongly he feels about. showing the new face of fashion doesn't it all to me to suggest that he was cornered that they wanted the west and sensually left him with no other option isn't that ultimately at the core of the question of why these resets never work that russia has always sort of pushed into the corner and you know. its interests are always betrayed or neglected when the united states or the west in general sees something of benefit for itself and i understand that that is how many russians see the problem with the resets that russia's interests are betrayed and so i think that i think the conclusion one draws from this is that again the u.s. and russia have very different views of what drives the world and really how to evaluate the nature of the relationship now i think you can certainly criticize the united states and i do in my book for not spending enough time and effort to

understand the russian perspective and understanding that after the collapse of the soviet union this was a very difficult period russia is a great power and it has been defining its new role in the world and there should have been more you know understanding of that but having said that there you know there's obviously clearly a very different view of when it's legitimate for instance to use military force in the situation as we have it now you are sent let me just we ran out of time but let me just say that no military force was you used as a few had and you know speaking of democracy i think there is no other party whose interest would be. serve better than russia by democracy being exercised because they are having the the east and the south of ukraine vote in the elections would guarantee. the best but unfortunately we have to leave it here thank you very much for your time and to our viewers keep the conversation going on our twitter you

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